Donald Trump proves ‘the global order’ was power politics all along

Australian foreign policy is obsessed with “rules -based international order ..

You can’t pass through Diplomatic Documents And Foreign Policy White Articles And Ministry speeches Without referring to our commitment. “International Rules Order served the national interests of Australia, encouraging global stability, peace and prosperity” Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade says. This is a foundation Foreign Policy Thought TANKARERS.

It is also the basis of foreign policy throughout the West. The standard accusation of Western countries is that China and Russia are trying to destroy the “rules -based international order .. Biden administration Erupted China “The only country in the world with military, economic, diplomatic capacity to weaken or challenge the order based on the rules that we attach great importance to and determined to defend”. And of course, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Violation of this orderThe Albanian government said.

Until recently, China was really China, which rejected the “international rules-based order”. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang He said in 2021:

We must categorically oppose power policy. Now and then to use ‘international order based on rules’ and to put pressure on other countries is another version of power policy. In fact, this is the attempt to impose one’s own will and standards on others and to change the international laws and norms with the rules of parliament of several countries.

In January, however, the new Trump administration arrived and China -based Order: Another US critic came. Trump’s Foreign Minister Marco Rubio in question That the “Global Order” served America well until the end of the Cold War. But now, “Post -war global order is not only the old; now a weapon used against us” because “America has continued to prioritize the ‘global order’ on our basic national interests, and other nations continue to behave as they are always and always for their best interests …

The first expression of this new humiliation for the rules -based order was economic: Trump declared a trade war in China, Canada and Mexico, especially in the rest of the planet. Previous agreements with the United States – their predecessors or Trump itself – was not worth anything: Australia, Canada and Mexico, all of the trade agreements with the United States, were on the line of fire with everyone.

But it is no longer just the overturned trade order; This is everything. When the Bush administration, supported by the Blair government and the Howard Government, decided to invade Iraq, at least the international community Saddam Hüseyin’s allegations of fake threats from mass destruction weapons were real and that international support and the UN administration were appropriate. In advance, discussions have been made about the US attack case.

Now, after more than 21 years, the UN Security Council decisions were not made by the US, and there was no social media article that declared victory and peace after just one bombardment. Trump admitted that there was no situation for the attack himself: Trump said that his national intelligence director did not restart Iran’s nuclear program In MarchIran, Obama era, one Trump in 2018, while meeting with the United States to try to reach a reserve agreement agreement.

At that time, the Bush administration seemed to be the parody of a government, a sad imitation of George Bush SR’s Kuwait moment. Now we have a wide nonsense: Strange Tulsi Gabbard for Colin Powell, instead of “Dubia ,, is chaotic, cognitively corrupted; The debate on intelligence for months was changed with orum I don’t care what you say ”.

While we still wait to see what Trump’s bombings have in Iran, we can declare to work on the destruction of those who remain in the order based on international rules. Wang was revealed, exactly right: the international rules-based order was really just a power policy, and Trump masking how power really works in-yine-US.

China invades Taiwan, who will later slap the punishment tariffs in imports or seize an athle in the South China Sea or intervene in the domestic policy of a Pacific state or intervene in the international rules? Not the US, of course. As a result, the provoked, unquestionable attacks made without warning in other countries are now complete. You don’t even need to act as if you were looking for UN approval. Just bomb and tweet.

The regimes that will hear this message the highest and most clearly will see the impressor for their own aggression in the capitals of smaller aggressive states, not in Beijing and Moscow, which already understands the true dynamics of global power. And in Tehran itself, the tyrants – unless they are overthrown – will definitely accelerate the country’s nuclear weapon program to prevent such an attack from re -taking place.

For a small country with such a fiery supporter of an international order like Australia, it is a particularly disturbing moment. We were happy to take advantage of the benefits of this order while turning a blind eye to the fact that it was only a power policy. Now we support Trump’s attacks, the coalition and the Corp is not as enthusiastic as we want, but we cheer-in-the-man-on-the-chords.

The rule of the forest is now valid – economically and strategically. And the biggest predator is not Russia or China, the USA.